Yesterday it happened — I handed in my final paper. I am officially done with seminary. No more papers to write or books to read for my seminary education. Unless I totally missed the mark on one of my papers I can say that I am done with seminary. Graduation is on Sunday and I can’t wait. My parents are coming down from Vermont and I have some good friends in the area that are coming up to celebrate. It will be one of the greatest days of my life.
Like most blogs that I have read with seminary graduates the days leading up to graduation is a time of reflection on the last four years of my life. I have spend the last four years working on papers, reading books and providing ministry to many people. To think that I have been in contact with thousands of people between my field education site, CPE site, Internship site, and the church that I worked at my senior year. There have been a lot of great memories and I have created a lot of great relationships. It will be sad to say good-bye.
This past Sunday I worked my last day at the church I have been working at as a youth director this past year. The first six months was very fusterating because nothing that I did worked. We just did not have the kids to do anything. But then in January kids started coming out and we have had a pretty successful program. It was very sad for me to say good-bye. The kids are great and I am going to miss them for sure.
So two of the things that have taken up majority of my time is over….done and done.
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I am still in pain from my fall the other day. It is my back that hurts. I can’t sit at all and I finally decided to go and see the doctor this afternoon. I am not sure what they will do — last fall when I had a constant pain in my back they just gave me pain medicine. But this is a different type of pain so I don’t know if there is something else that they can do. I am glad that all I have to do now is rest.
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There is not much news on the first call front. I am waiting until the end of May for my trial sermon and interview. I am very excited about it and nervous that it goes well. Not only is this church a great church but I am very excited to finally be settled and working on ministry. As things advance I will keep everyone updated.
That’s all for now. I hope to catchup on my blogging the next few days. There have been lots of things I want to blog on and reflections that I would like to share so come back and visit again soon.
My time at the seminary is quickly coming to an end. I can’t believe it!! I have two more papers to write and one to edit. I have one more week of classes. I have been wanting to blog and keep everyone up to date on my life happenings but that seems more and more impossible. I do have an hour before lunch so I am going to generally try and give you the full picture.
I am interviewing for a potential church in May 28th. It is not as soon as we would of liked but schedules did not permit a sooner time. If everything goes well and as I would expect I hope to be in place by July 1st. In between then I will take some time to rest and relax, move out of our apartment, find a place to store our stuff, move in with my parents (thanks mom and dad) and get some kind of part time work which I hope will include supply preaching, and some other well paying minimal commitment job (which should be easy to find……right?)
I don’t mind waiting as much if I have a plan and we are trying to come up with that now.
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Classes are ending well – I am glad I took a class last summer to get things out of the way. I don’t think I have as much work as some others, but I still have things to do.
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Graduation is on May18th – I am excited about that. I think I am ready to move on. Living off campus has been a blessing and curse. We are far enough away (about 45 min) where we are not able to come to campus for a party or a night event (having two small kids doesn’t help). I miss that community that I experienced my first two years of seminary. But it has been a good transition for us– since we are not as close to the community as we once were we are ready to move on. The boy will have enough trouble separating from his friends at the day care. But I hope he will like where we move too.
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The family is doing well – with the change of weather there are some coughs and stuffy noses in the house but nothing terrible. I just hope it gets warm soon and we can start packing up all the winter clothes.
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I need to catch up on some emails before lunch. I don’t know when I will get on here again in the next week. Most of the words that will be writing will be about the Book American Jesus (I have not read that yet) or about using the 10 commandments as a basis for pre-marriage work.
To all the other seminarians out there – Good luck the next few weeks!!!!!
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